pansophy
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German philosophers made ready to seize upon it with huge mental biceps and labor to incorporate it beneficently into the Teuton pansophy.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver
Philosophy she lacked, but theosophy, which is a pansophy, she possessed—when she did not need it.
From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar
Next in importance to pansophy or encyclopædism, and closely connected with it, is the principle that a knowledge of words and of things should go hand in hand.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
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